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Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
The West Uses Agreements to Deceive Its Opponents
Peter Koenig tells us that “Most everything we see is not what it appears to be”
President Trump’s tariff war is like a huge TV screen to deviate people’s attention from what happens behind the screen. For example, did you know that the much propagated dissolution of USAID – for so called reasons of corruption and hundreds of billions spent for clandestine regime change preparations around the world, – was actually not dissolved, but discretely transferred to the State Department – where it is safe under Marco Rubio supervision (see Whitney Webb’s analysis, below) .
Thinking about it, wouldn’t it be naïve to imagine that the US / Washington would voluntarily give up such an efficient apparatus like USAID that helped fund the Kiev Maidan Coup in February 2014 – the origin of the current Ukraine – Russia (US-proxy) war (a multi-multi-billion dollar money machine for the war industry on both sides of the Atlantic), and is funding thousands of so-called NGOs, infiltrating governments around the globe,, as spy and regime change prep-agents.
Why would anyone believe the US government would just discard an efficient clandestine extended arm of the CIA, as was USAID? – Now, the same CIA tool will be more camouflaged, less visible, within the maze of the US State Department which is also funding The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), known for worldwide regime-change operations, and funding of terror groups in countries where the US seeks a reason to invade and “clean up” the terrorists it created.
Such, for example, are the origins of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS – and many, many more – mostly created in close “cooperation” with the UK (MI6) and the Israeli Mossad – and of course the US-CIA.
One of President Trump’s closest ally, Elon Musk, found that hundreds of billions of dollars could be saved if USAID would disappear. Musk was given the newly invented Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to discover such aberrations. Of course he did. And he may discover many more of such wasteful agencies, discard them on the surface – on the public TV screen – just to continue them behind the screen, disguised in another dress.
Tariff wars and such “aberrations” – useless spending – is what you can see on the “television screen”, keeps your attention fixed on sensation, while behind the screen, behind the curtain – wars are planned and funded and Peace efforts drowned, because they do not serve the profit greed of the war / killing industries.
The Tariff War is really not a worldwide tariff war, but a “confrontation” sought with China, by the Trump Administration. China plays along, as China never seeks and entertains confrontations. It is not in the Chinese DNA. China’s policies and long-term visions are marked by the the thousands of years-old DAO philosophy. Among other mantras it teaches: Never confront an adversary – submit yourself and play along with it – and in the end you will win.
The non-confrontation lesson, is what we should learn in the west.
We – the world – would live in Peace, and we would all win.
peter
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The US-China Tariff War (13 May 2025)
PressTV Interview on Tariff Negotiations in Geneva (Loose Transcript)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-china-tariff-war-peter-koenig/5886721
President Trump’s tariff war is like a huge TV screen to deviate people’s attention from what happens behind the screen. For example, did you know that the much propagated dissolution of USAID – for so called reasons of corruption and hundreds of billions spent for clandestine regime change preparations around the world, was actually not dissolved, but discretely transferred to the State Department – where it is safe under Marco Rubio supervision.
Thinking about it, wouldn’t it be naïve to imagine that the US / Washington would voluntarily give up such an efficient apparatus like USAID, which helped fund the Kiev Maidan Coup in February 2014 — the origin of the current US-proxy war against Russia in Ukraine–a multi-billion dollar money machine for the war industry on both sides of the Atlantic–and is funding thousands of so-called NGOs, infiltrating governments around the globe as spy and regime change prep-agents.
Why would anyone believe the US government would just discard an efficient clandestine extended arm of the CIA, as was USAID? – Now, the same CIA tool will be more camouflaged, less visible, within the maze of the US State Department which is also funding The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), known for worldwide regime-change operations, and funding of terror groups in countries where the US seeks a reason to invade and and finds it in the need to “clean up” the terrorists it created.
Such, for example, are the origins of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS – and many, many more – mostly created in close “cooperation” with the UK (MI6) and the Israeli Mossad – and of course the US-CIA.
One of President Trump’s closest allies, Elon Musk, found that hundreds of billions of dollars could be saved if USAID would disappear. Musk was given the newly invented Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to discover such aberrations. Of course he did. And he may discover many more of such wasteful agencies, discard them on the surface — on the public TV screen — just to continue them behind the screen, disguised in another dress.
Tariff wars and such “aberrations” is what you can see on the “television screen.” It keeps your attention fixed on sensation, while behind the screen, behind the curtain wars are planned and funded and peace efforts drown, because they do not serve the profit greed of the war killing industries.
The Tariff War is really not a worldwide tariff war, but a “confrontation” sought with China, by the Trump Administration. China plays along, as China never seeks and entertains confrontations. It is not in the Chinese DNA. China’s policies and long-term visions are marked by the thousands of years-old DAO philosophy which teaches: Never confront an adversary, submit yourself and play along with it and in the end you will win.
The non-confrontation lesson, is what we should learn in the west. The world would live in Peace, and we would all win.
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The US-China Tariff War (13 May 2025)
PressTV Interview on Tariff Negotiations in Geneva
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-china-tariff-war-peter-koenig/5886721